Wednesday, January 15, 2020

How to Spell Email or E-Mail

How do you spell email? Email or E-mail?

From grammarly.com:

E-mail and email are both correct ways to spell the same word. The issue of the hyphen (or lack thereof) in e-mail is still far from being settled. Different style guides prefer one spelling over the other, so if you need to follow one make sure you use the spelling it prescribes.

Corroborating sources and links:

From: grammarist.com:

A few editorially conservative publications still prefer e-mail to email, but most of the English-speaking world has adopted the unhyphenated form. In a Google News search covering 2011 and the start of 2012, there are approximately six instances of email for every e-mail, a dramatic shift from a couple of years ago. And the unhyphenated form is even more common outside newswriting.

From: lawprose.org:

But the tide of history will be against the form, and email will doubtless be the only form most people will have ever seen a few years from now.


What does Google Trends tell us about email versus e-mail?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=email,e-mail


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